Retouching

Due 4/25

Choose one of the following, or both (an additional for extra credit).

• Restore old, damaged photograph
• Retouch portrait image (recently made image)

All images must be of sufficiently high resolution to support deep fixes. Choose images that could clearly benefit from restoration/retouching. Please consult with instructor, if unsure. Please use non-destructive techniques, as demonstrated in class. 

Final file should be sufficient resolution to be printed letter-size at 360 dpi.

Turn in:

1. Jpeg of original file/image (or original image included as a layer in your final PSD file)
2. PSD file with all supporting layers
3. Print

white screen shooting

Monday 3/26

Emma Junck
Rhianna Israni
Aleiah Briggs
Grant Tolson
Candace Von Hoffman
Brooke Carroll
Jordan Williams
Hanna Terry
Azad Patel
Caitlin Colditz

Wednesday 3/28

Lauren Bellamy
Madison Smith
Anna Lipson
Georgia Sheridan
Dana Tokarzewski

Alana Guarino
Kali Sturgis
Paige Torre
Anna Crain
Lane Pernell
Sam Hughes

Project 3: Fictional Reality

Due Dates:

• White Screen production shooting: Monday 3/26 and Wednesday 3/28
• Preliminary critique Monday 4/16
• Final critique:  Wednesday 4/25 

Turn in:

• Print on 13x19 paper (Hand in)
• Final PSD file, with all layers and masks, reduce to 1200 pixels, longest size (use image processor to do this) (On server)
• 1200 jpeg (On server)

©Loretta Lux

©Kelli Connell

Create something that is both possible and impossible, at the same time. Explore the line between fantasy and reality.

Create a character and place them in an environment or situation that might be strange, surreal, or simply, weird. How is the line between fantasy—reality blurred? Consider myths, fairy tales, other stories. Or make something up.

Move beyond the simple and silly to something that works on multiple levels. What questions are raised? Beyond that, anything goes. There is plenty of room for creative interpretation. 

Think big for this one... costumes? styling? props?

Integrate the subject with the unlikely background/situation. Unify lighting direction, scale, point of view, shooting angle, etc., so that it truly appears that the subject is occupying the unlikely place.

There are just a few technical ground rules for this project.

1. At least one of the main subjects should be shot with white screen techniques
2. The white screen subject should be masked and appropriately integrated into the new background, with scale, perspective, point of view, light quality and direction convincingly matched.
3. The finished image should "read" realistically and convincingly as a single, genuine photo
4. At least 18" x 24" @360 dpi. All component pieces should be at adequate resolution

Gregory Crewdson
Grace Weston

Kahn and Selesnick

Bill Finger

Sarah Anne Johnson

Loretta Lux

Wendy McMurdo

Kelli Connell

Cornelia Hediger

Gillian Wearing

Student Work: